What do you mean it may not have been an apple per se... you stated earlier as though a fact the sin was eating apples. Now Christ said .... Mark 13:23 I have foretold you all things. It was NOT an apple tree that Christ cursed it was a FIG tree and do you find any mention of figs in the Garden of Eden?????
[[What do you mean it may not have been an apple per se... you stated earlier as though a fact the sin was eating apples.]]
I explained what I meant well enough- the apple may or may not be metaphorical. The’forbidden fruit’ could very well have been simply making themselves susceptible to listening to hte lies of the beguiling serpent. As you should know, we stand a much better chance of not sinning- not falling to temptation, IF we abstain from situations where we are subjected to inticing issues- the old saying “Garbage in - Garbage out’ is a saying exhorting us to simply stay away from garbagge because is we emerse ourselves in environments where sin is present, we are allowing garbage to infiltrate and pollute our minds and thus we indulge our sinful natures which makes it much much harder to resist the temptation.
The ‘forbidden fruit’ could very well have meant simply breaking away from God’s goodness and protection,. and instead preffering to let go of inhibitions and to listen to the lies of Satan and falling prey to His deceitfulness and then sinning.
[[It was NOT an apple tree that Christ cursed it was a FIG tree and do you find any mention of figs in the Garden of Eden?????]]
What in the world are getting at? This was an event many 1000’s of years AFTER the event in the garden and is irrelevent to our discussion here. (And by the way, you do understand that Christ’s curse was allegorical and meant that those who do not produce the ‘fruit of hte Spirit’ will be cut away and ‘cursed’, right?)